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Fuller doubles up and Shackleton goes huge for Picture Big Air at The Brits

The Picture Big Air British Championships saw the kicker focussed format return to the BRITS for the first time in five years ahead of the discipline's debut at the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang this coming February. British prospects for that contest look bright after an awesome showing from GB Park and Pipe athletes, who locked up the wins today on Laax’s biggest hits.

As with the first two days of competition, clouds and mist delayed the start of competition slightly, but once riding was underway, it didn't stop play in any major way. Snow conditions were excellent, and the world-class kickers shaped by the Laax park team were running perfectly, setting the stage for this highly anticipated contest. Each competitor completed two finals runs before the top 12 men and top six women progressed to a two run super final.

Henry Shackleton (photo: Motion Stoppers)

In the men’s contest it was a battle royale between the new British Slopestyle Champion Matt McCormick, and his GB Park and Pipe teammate Henry Shackleton. In the first round, it was McCormick who drew first blood. The Scotsman's back 1080 double-cork was cleaner than Shackleton's by some margin, and Matt led into the super final. But Henry was just warming up, and he came out swinging in the final round with a towering cab 1260 double. An absolute show stopper. Matt didn’t take it lying down, and he fired back with a dub 10 reverse truckdriver, which was just oozing with style. Unfortunately for him it wasn’t enough to overcome the technical difficulty of Shackleton’s manoeuvre, and he had to settle for a silver, completing his collection after gold in slopestyle and bronze in boardercross. Cairan Tucker’s back 7 mute put the 17 year old on his age-group’s and the overall podium, taking under 18 gold and overall bronze.

Discussing the monster trick that won, Shackleton said “It’s a cab double 12 that I learnt recently, so I was happy to put it down in a run, it’s the first time I’ve put it down in competition”

Aimee Fuller (photo: Motion Stoppers)

The women’s podium was topped by another GB Park and Pipe star, as Aimee Fuller grabbed another British Championship making it two in the week. Aimee spent more time upside down than she did the right way up; under-flipping her way to another gold. Fuller’s signature trick was firing on all cylinders and she laced it perfectly in both rounds to take the win. The fight for the rest of the podium was fierce, as style and amplitude faced off against raw technicality. In the end Fiona Reid’s huge backside 180 wasn’t enough to overturn Cerys Allen’s 720 - the only of the women’s competition - but it was noted as a highlight by the judges.

After collecting her 2nd gold in three days, Aimee said: “It was really awesome to ride with the girls again, and see some really good stuff going down. It’s cool to see that the level is definitely there in the UK, and it’s great to be a part of that and ride with the rest of the UK girls.”

Whilst kicker options where in place for riders of almost any level, there were several tiny riders stepping it up and hitting jumps that absolutely dwarfed them. Under 12 riders Mia Brookes and Charlie Lane were both styling out spins and grabs over the medium jump, and earned places in their respective super finals. Under 16 riders were very well represented in the super finals too, with 6 riders progressing. Slopestyle standout Leon Drynan shone once again, laying down stylish 720s to finish 5th overall.

The BRITS returns to LAAX, Switzerland from 2nd – 9th April 2017 and Picture Organic Clothing bring back the Big Air Championships to celebrate its newly acquired Olympic status.

The BRITS will again be entering into the warm, welcoming arms of LAAX, the freestyle wonderland of the world, for the British Snowboard & Freeski Championships 2017 with holiday packages now available online.

Laax is the name that the tourist office of the villages of Flims, Laax and Falera prefer to be collectively known by. Flims itself, the largest of the three, is made up of two centres, the larger being Flims Waldhaus which dates back to 745AD. The Tourist Office promotes these two centres as well as Laax and Falera, neighbouring villages, as one place in terms of facilities.

With the biggest show-on-snow about to kick off, what better time to update on the forthcoming British Snowboard & Freeski Championships - an event which has played a pivotal role in identifying the 17 freestyle athletes on Team GB, which heads to PyeongChang with its largest and strongest squad ever to compete at a Winter Olympics.
For more than 25 years, The BRITS has been nurturing freest

As there's generally a fair bit of interest in this Winter Olympics carry-on, we thought we'd throw together a schedule for your viewing pleasure; though, close to being on the opposite side of the planet, and bound to daylight hours, we're unsure how much pleasure this viewing schedule may bring.

FIS Snowboard World Cup – Saturday 2 December – Möenchengladbach GER
Ladies’ Big Air – Katie Ormerod, Aimee Fuller
Men’s Big Air – Rowan Coultas, Matt McCormick
Katie Ormerod opened her season with second place at the Big Air World Cup in Milan three weeks ago and will be hoping to continue that strong form after sitting out last weekend’s event in China.

The competitive snowsports season moves into full swing this weekend with seven British athletes set to compete at two FIS World Cup events.
Following a disrupted start two weeks ago in Austria, the Alpine World Cup moves on to Levi in Finland with Dave Ryding, Laurie Taylor, Alex Tilley and Charlie Guest in action, whilst the Snowboard Big Air World Cup season gets underway in Milan, Italy aft

With the biggest show-on-snow about to kick off, what better time to update on the forthcoming British Snowboard & Freeski Championships - an event which has played a pivotal role in identifying the 17 freestyle athletes on Team GB, which heads to PyeongChang with its largest and strongest squad ever to compete at a Winter Olympics.
For more than 25 years, The BRITS has been nurturing freest

As there's generally a fair bit of interest in this Winter Olympics carry-on, we thought we'd throw together a schedule for your viewing pleasure; though, close to being on the opposite side of the planet, and bound to daylight hours, we're unsure how much pleasure this viewing schedule may bring.

With the biggest show-on-snow about to kick off, what better time to update on the forthcoming British Snowboard & Freeski Championships - an event which has played a pivotal role in identifying the 17 freestyle athletes on Team GB, which heads to PyeongChang with its largest and strongest squad ever to compete at a Winter Olympics.
For more than 25 years, The BRITS has been nurturing freest

As there's generally a fair bit of interest in this Winter Olympics carry-on, we thought we'd throw together a schedule for your viewing pleasure; though, close to being on the opposite side of the planet, and bound to daylight hours, we're unsure how much pleasure this viewing schedule may bring.

With PyeongChang less than two weeks away and Olympic fever setting in, an exciting event is about to take place which will allow newcomers and lovers of snowsports to try a range of different disciplines.
British Ski & Snowboard together with Snowsport Scotland and Snowsport England is presenting a two-day celebration of snowsports at Scottish resort Lecht 2090.
The Lecht Winter Games w

The last week of major competition before the Olympic Winter Games is currently taking place with success for our freestyle skiers on one of the biggest stages in the sport.
Izzy Atkin and James Woods both scored top three finishes at the X-Games in Aspen in what has been widely viewed as one of the highest quality competitions of all time.
Elsewhere, Jasmin Taylor continued her phenomenal

Team GB will take more skiers and snowboarders to an Olympic Winter Games than ever before with a record number of athletes selected for the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games.
Twenty-five athletes will compete across alpine, cross country, freestyle skiing and snowboard events with the previous record of 22 selected for Cortina 1956.